Every local authority in England will have to grant permission to four or five more sites of at least 50 homes every year if the country is to hit the government’s 300,000 homes-a-year housing target.

New research, carried out by planning consultant Lichfields for the Home Builders Federation (HBF) and the Land Promoters and Developers Federation (LPDF), concluded that between 474 and 1,385 implementable permissions on sites of between 50-250 homes will be required per annum to increase build rates sufficiently.

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